A very nice list of WCF / .NET Framework 2.0 downloads from the IDesign team.
http://www.idesign.net/idesign/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=11
I have been working in the area of Web services for some time and I am on a project where I needed to distribute some extremely large datasets to some clients (Windows Forms). So, imagine an interface where you need to request information about an entity and you have a service where you can send in an array of entities to then get back an array of result sets about each one of the identifiers passed in. We had one such application and it worked quite nicely in that we built some ASP.NET 2.0 Web services ......
Scott Guthrie posts about the upcoming Atlas 1.0 release at http://weblogs.asp.net/scot... The highlights include: The only date mentioned is the end of the year for the beta - then will come an RC and then they will decide later when to release the product. Atlas will be fully compatible with ASP.NET 2.0 and VS2005. Atlas will have a outstanding support model and MSFT is committed to supporting it for the next 10 years. The names ......